is this normal?

I am SOOOOO exhausted. I need you ladies who’ve already been through pregnancy to tell me if this is normal. I mean, I know fatigue is normal, but I could easily sleep 10-12 hours a night AND take a nap sometime during the day. I can barely focus at work because I feel so run [...]

From Russia with Love

The last few days the boyfriend has taken to sending me emails in foreign languages which require me to use BabelFish translation. The latest made me laugh out loud:
Я надеюсь что вы имело славную ворсину. Я радостен собака не разрушил мой
бумажник. Я только не буду иметь тип до 6 сегодня потому что я принимаю
испытание. Я [...]

i have Big News

Has anyone noticed that I’ve been MIA? It’s been an incredibly crazy last 10 days. In addition to having several projects due for work and a conference presentation, I felt like complete and utter crap. Thursday I was so inexplicably tired that I couldn’t get out of bed. I called into work and slept all [...]

if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em

Okay. Just a few days ago I posted what I imagined a block party on MY street would look like. All the components of my imaginary story were taken from real life events that have indeed occurred on my block. The annual Fall Fest at the Catholic church and school across the street did, in [...]

pet woes

Poor Zoe. A little over a week ago I took her to the vet to have him investigate a hot spot that, once the tech shaved her neck hair off, proved to be far worse than I had imagined. After an injection of steroids, the vet put Zoe on 1 tab of Prednisone a day [...]

block party: a story

A few days ago my Buddy Eloise wrote a post about her street’s idyllic block party, complete with corn casserole, coconut macaroons, a professional grade grill, and a giant inflatable waterslide for the kids. The houses on her street are gorgeous and have beautifully manicured lawns. The people on her street look happy, beautiful, and [...]

wanderlust Wednesday: Niagara has nothing on this!

Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil (May 2006)
Rivaled only by South Africa’s Victoria Falls, this waterfall system stretches 1.67 miles and consists of 275 falls. The flow capacity is three times that of Niagara. Some of the falls are 269 feet high and average around 210 feet high. The falls are on the Argentinian/Brazilian border. And they’re [...]

What will I read next…???

I’m coming dangerously close to finishing Sarah Turnbull’s Almost French without having another book lined up to read. Despite my long list of “to-read” items on Goodreads, none of them are feeling like the perfect fit for my mood and the time of year. On Thursday I scanned the shelves at the library branch [...]

update on the publication of Jewel of Medina

This is a follow up to my previous post about the controversial yanking of publication of a historical fiction novel about the prophet Muhammad’s child bride. Per yesterday’s article in the Guardian, Sherry Jones’s The Jewel of Medina has found a British publisher, Gibson Square, who will publish the book in October in Britain, Australia, [...]

wanderlust Wednesday

It’s hot here. And I really wish I were in the ocean. Above photo is of me and my best friend from my 30th birthday trip to Florida in July 2006.